Michele Perri, 39, laborer, helped to save Eugene P. Duncan, 6, from being run over by a locomotive, Allison Park, Pennsylvania, May 15, 1911. Perri and another man ran across the eastbound track to Eugene, who was walking on the ties outside the far rail of the westbound track, on which a locomotive was approaching at a speed of 40 m.p.h. They reached Eugene together, and their momentum carried him and them from the track, just as the locomotive rushed by. 6720-587
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